I’ve had Covid multiple times within the last few years, and for about a year or so now I cannot eat eggs. Doesn’t matter where I get them, how they are cooked, or what I eat them with, they just taste so rotten to me. Has this happened to anyone else?
Also just curious to see if anyone else has any weird or random things that have lingered since you’ve had covid.
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I only lost my taste and smell completely the first time, and I think it made me like cilantro a little bit more. I rarely ever have it, but I remember eating a burrito or something after my taste came back and thinking it tasted better. Peanut butter tasted weird for a couple weeks too. But nothing lasted that long.
Within a few weeks of having COVID the first time I was no longer able to eat any form of dairy, even small amounts would make me extremely ill. It took 6 months of tests, blood work, CT scan, and a colonoscopy to rule out cancer, chron’s disease, IBD, etc followed by several more months of elimination diets. My entire system was so inflamed that my doctors were pretty shocked when it turned out to just be dairy. Whatever the issue, it’s way worse than lactose intolerance but also doesn’t seem to be an allergy so now I just don’t eat anything with dairy. I blame the COVID but obviously can’t prove it.
Yep. I ended up with PI-IBS as a result of my first COVID infection. It’s a bummer, seems to have totally changed my gut flora.
You can see more info about how many people have had long-term symptoms from covid (before they stopped tracking it) here
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm
I had it and lost taste and smell. Coffee smelled like burned nuts among other things. Stayed that way until I got the second round of the vaccine. Almost a year and a half of being unable to eat or smell certain things.
I lost my taste and smell completely when I got COVID. It’s been 5ish years and still every now and then my sense of taste will go away, or greatly diminish. So strange
Sometimes people get their sense of smell completely scrambled either temporarily or permanently where everything smells like sewage or cigarettes or something like that and they can only stomach plain crackers and clear broth, but I hadn’t heard of that happening with only one specific smell or food, that’s very interesting
I have permanent nerve trauma due to an autoimmune disorder that I didn’t know I had until what should have been a simple neck injury resulted in major spinal surgery. A side effect of the surgery is neuropathy in my legs and feet. It got noticeable worse after I got covid.
I’m sorry, that does sound extremely awful 🙁
I have had Covid five times. Each time after there are more foods I can’t eat. First it was beer, it all tasted skunky. Then tomato products, spaghetti, actual tomatoes, pizza all tastes like crap. The third time was miracle whip, I always used it on my sandwiches but not anymore. Fourth was my taste buds in general, especially popcorn. Nothing tastes right. I always hope whatever I cook will be delicious but it never is. Finally, Coca Cola. My favorite thing is fountain Coke from McDonald’s and it doesn’t taste at all like it used to. I know it’s still good because other people say it’s the same but to me it’s completely different. Covid has ruined my taste and smell. Life isn’t the same without it
My 13 year old son lost his sense of smell 5 years ago with Covid and has never gotten it back.
I was a heavy coffee drinker since I was in college. After COVID I can’t drink it. I’ve tried many times.
I have to use an inhaler every time I get a cold now. I don’t smell or taste things strongly anymore and I get short of breath sometimes.
This is more common than we think. Every COVID infection you get — even mild ones, or ones where you have no symptoms at all — damage your body in some way. The only way to avoid long COVID is to avoid getting infected (even more so if you’ve already had it before). Wear a well-fitted respirator in public/at work. 3M Aura makes one that fits a lot of people well. Kn95s are alright, too, but it’s a bit harder to get a good seal with those
Not food but drink – not now but I had covid in 2022 and after coke and lemon juice tasted weird.
Look into function medicine. I just went and had this same conversation and they recommended some treatment plans. I still believe in Drs but I think Covid divided the medical community and started seeing a function dr to seek to find the root of the problem, not just an antibiotic for the symptoms
I had a really long time getting back to walking fit form I would get winded fast. I also slept a lot for about a year or so. This was still with boosters. The oddest thing is my allergies in my sinuses got a lot better. The whole time everyone was distance and sheltering. I felt like I was dying with sinus issues.
My period also immediately got weird but did return to normal, which I have heard others talk about both with covid and with the shots.
Smells hit me hard. I puke way more often these days.
Nothing food-related but I think covid screwed with my eyes long term, if not permanently. Once I started recovering from covid four years ago, my eyes were super sensitive to the sunlight. Intensely sensitive. Just taking my dog out for a walk would make me feel like I was being blinded. While it’s not nearly that bad now, I do still experience sensitivity to sunlight every now and again.
Beef, unfortunately. Displeasure of all the senses now. I still have it now & again. But, different.
For a little over a year I couldn’t eat anything that had been cooked. It tasted like what i imagine rotten flesh tastes like.
I’ve had COVID twice and neither time affected my smell or taste. Thank goodness, because I love eggs.
I can’t remember this tik toker username but she has long covid where she couldn’t enjoy food. Her taste buds were gone well after a year since she had covid and she got Covid again but this 2nd time around, her taste buds returned and she was in heavenly food heaven until 15 days into covid, her taste buds disappeared again, she did experiments to try to bring them back
I lost my taste and smell with COVID back in 2021. When they returned I started craving raw onions, and chocolate. 2 foods I never liked before. I love the taste now and can’t get enough of either of them! Meanwhile, I’ve found beef, and cheese- 2 of my favorites lost their edge and just aren’t as enjoyable anymore.
After my first bout with covid, took almost 2 years for so much to not smell or taste foul. Pretty much anything with sulfur/sulfites. Eggs, coffee, garlic, onions, gasoline, were some of the main ones. It all had the same smell, taste. It made me aggravated.
I lost my sense of taste and smell for really short period of time, and when it came back a lot of stuff smelled like cigarettes.
The lasting effect is that I can’t be around and smell cut onions. I’ll get a migraine.
I can’t eat meat. And for a long time everything smelled like weed or urine…. what I CAN smell, that is
I think things smell rotten all the time now, especially produce.
I think covid ruined cheese for me
Lost taste and smell during. Could not tolerate tomato products or certain spices for months afterwords. Years later I still dislike oregano.
When I got covid I had this issue with peppermint, smelled and tasted like hot metal garbage. I fixed it by smelling peppermint essential oil until it smelled right. I’m not sure exactly how it works but it was almost like some wires got crossed and my brain got confused about what peppermint was. I couldn’t brush my teeth without gagging for a year. Not sure if this method would work for eggss or not though.
I had COVID (OG, pre-vax, Dec of 2020 strain), I lost taste and smell on day 5.
When it came back, “Sharp” smells/tastes: onions, body odor, garlic smelled like bleach.
Randomly, ice berg lettuce tasted like bleach for 3+ years but seems to be fine now.
Yeah, I have the same issues with eggs, taste and smell rotten. Occasionally,with chicken as well, it sucks